Justin Ruths is an assistant professor with appointments in Mechanical Engineering and Systems Engineering at the University of Texas at Dallas. He joined UTD in 2016 after spending five years as an assistant professor and part of the founding faculty at the Singapore University of Technology and Design. His research includes studying the fundamental properties of controlling networks, bilinear systems theory, security of cyber-physical control systems, with applications in neuroscience, social systems, and autonomous driving. As part of his ongoing work on the physical side of security, he supports the Nova project within his lab, which is an all-undergraduate team that is building an open source autonomous stack meant for research purposes.